Rara! : vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora / Elizabeth McAlister.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.Description: xviii, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)ISBN: - 0520228227 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Rara Festival -- Songs and music -- History and criticism
- Voodoo music -- Haiti -- History and criticism
- Folk music -- Haiti -- History and criticism
- Folk songs, Creole -- Haiti -- History and criticism
- Haiti -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Haiti -- Social conditions -- 1971-
- Rara (Fãete) -- Chants et musique -- Histoire et critique
- Musique vaudoue -- Haiti -- Histoire et critique
- Musique folklorique -- Haiti -- Histoire et critique
- Chansons folkloriques crâeoles -- Haiti -- Histoire et critique
- Haiti -- Moeurs et coutumes -- 20e siecle
- Haiti -- Conditions sociales -- 1971-
- CEH
- Colección Estudios Haitianos
- 784.4/97294
- 110 ML 3565 M478r 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-246), discography (p. 246-248), videography (p. 248), and index.
Introducing rara -- Work and play, pleasure and performance -- Vulgarity and the politics of the small man -- Mystical work : spirits on parade -- Rara and "the Jew" : premodern anti-Judaism in postmodern Haiti -- Rara as popular army : hierarchy, militarism, and warfare -- Voices under domination : rara and the politics of insecurity -- Rara in New York City : transnational popular culture.
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